''Feed'' or ''feedmag.com'' (1995–2001) was one of the earliest

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s that relied entirely on its original content.

History

''Feed'' was founded in New York by

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and Steven Johnson in May 1995, with novelist

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serving as one of its editors. One of the web's earliest general-interest daily publications, ''Feed'' focused on media, pop culture, technology, science and the arts. ''Feed'' soon found a devoted following among an alternative readership and was critically acclaimed, but as a small independent publication, it struggled to raise sufficient advertising revenue. In July 2000, following a sharp downturn in Internet investment, ''Feed'' merged with the popular editorial site

Suck.com Suck.com was an online magazine, one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. It featured daily editorial content on a great variety of topics, including politics and pop-culture. Launched in 1995 and geared towards a Generatio ...

to create

Automatic Media Automatic Media was a web content site in 2000 to 2001. Foundation Automatic Media was created in July 2000 as a joint venture between Suck and Feed, two online magazines, after the publications had raised $4 million in venture capital financing ...

. The two sites sought to streamline their operations and collaborate with low staffing costs. Their joint project

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was founded with only four staffed employees. Despite the faithful cult following and a combined reader base of over 1 million, Automatic Media folded in June 2001, and Feed closed operations.

References

External links

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A News.com
article on Feed's demise

on the end of Suck and Feed

by

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audio interview

Steven Berlin Johnson's blog
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